Starlight Auction

In the God Realm, Tang San looked with a sense of frustration at Xiao Qi, who was curled up in her hotel room, lying flat and fast asleep.

"Xiao Qi, why are you so unmotivated? If a crisis were to befall the Douluo Continent like this, wouldn't I be powerless to turn the tide?"

"Xiao Qi, Father will help you one more time. I will assist you in pursuing your own happiness, so that I may continue to guard the Douluo Continent."

As he spoke, several divine rings emerged behind Tang San. The power of the Sea God gradually descended into the Valley of Love Inquiry, extracting a significant portion of the law of the Love God from within.

After changing the target of the Love God's law to Huo Yuhao, Tang San used the Sea God's divine consciousness remaining in Wang Dong's Spirit Sea to integrate it into her body.

"Since the law has been extracted, let the plan for the Emperor Auspicious Beast begin as well."

"If Huo Yuhao's mental power weren't so formidable, I would have directly integrated a portion of Xiao Qi's divine consciousness into the Spirit Sea of the Auspicious Beast. Why go through all this trouble?"

"It is just that, in this way, the Golden Dragon Spear will likely be difficult to obtain. I can only wait until Huo Yuhao enters the God Realm to see if a trade is possible."

While speaking, Tang San carefully avoided the divine consciousness of the Silver Dragon King and infused a portion of the Love God's law, several times stronger than the one given to Wang Dong, into the Three-Eyed Golden Ni.

At that moment, the Three-Eyed Golden Ni, who was sleeping in the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest, suddenly woke up with a start. She had dreamed of many daily life scenes with Huo Yuhao after she transformed into human form in the future.

Suddenly, the Three-Eyed Golden Ni, who had already become curious about the human world after viewing the small amount of memory transmitted by Huo Yuhao, felt a surge of eagerness and made up her mind.

After leaving a fake body in the Star Dou Great Forest to undergo seclusion, she began her own transformation process.

Inside the hotel in Star Luo City, Wang Dong also woke up in a daze. Not yet fully detached from her dream, she subconsciously called out, "Yuhao."

She immediately realized what she had done, her face flushing with shyness.

In the dream, she had eventually walked down the aisle with Huo Yuhao after he ascended to the God Realm, and the two of them even had several children.

Upon waking, Wang Dong felt a sense of loss. She bit her lip gently, a firm resolve forming in her heart to pursue Huo Yuhao.

Over the next few days, Shrek Academy swept through all the elimination rounds with unstoppable momentum, advancing into the top sixteen.

After the final elimination match ended, Huo Yuhao was preparing to return to his room to cultivate when he felt that warm, lingering gaze from behind.

Huo Yuhao looked back at Wang Dong helplessly. He did not know what had gotten into her lately; she had been staring at him with that look for several days now.

Huo Yuhao guessed it was another one of the Tang God King's schemes, but since the power of fate had not sent any warnings, it seemed it would not affect him.

Not long after returning to his room, the group from Shrek Academy received an invitation from the Starlight Auction.

As the largest auction in Star Luo City, the auction of battle armor would naturally take place there.

Shortly after Huo Yuhao led the others into their private box at the Starlight Auction, the event was about to begin.

"Lang Ya, didn't the Sect Master say that we Body Martial Soul masters must rely on ourselves and that such Soul Guidance Devices are useless? Why are we here to participate in the auction?"

Inside the Body Sect's box, Yu Tao asked Lang Ya, feeling puzzled.

"It is not the Sect Master's intention. The Heavenly Soul Royal Family hopes we can help them win the bid, as they may not be able to escort it back safely themselves. The Royal Family is covering all expenses for this."

Upon hearing this, Yu Tao lay back on the sofa in the box and closed his eyes to rest. As a member of the Body Sect who had always believed in his own strength and looked down upon Soul Guidance Devices, he had no interest in them.

Today's auction was being conducted by a senior auctioneer whom Huo Yuhao did not recognize. She was exceptionally elegant and refined, and certainly not Princess Xu Jiujiu from the original timeline.

Huo Yuhao guessed that because she was about to join the academy, she had avoided participating to prevent any suspicion.

As one item after another was auctioned off, it finally reached the Two-Word Battle Armor crafted by Huo Yuhao.

Before the bidding began, the auctioneer's voice rang out, introducing the transaction restrictions for this round.

"For the auction of this Two-Word Battle Armor, we will not accept direct Gold Soul Coin transactions. We only accept rare metals and Soul Guidance Devices equivalent to the value in Gold Soul Coins."

"The starting price is fifty million Gold Soul Coins. The auction begins now."

In the Sun Moon Empire's box, Xiao Hongchen slammed his fist against the sofa in anger.

"Bastards! The Douluo Three Kingdoms must have colluded long ago. They are using rare metals for the transaction specifically to catch us off guard. They never intended for us to be able to win the bid."

Elder Ma, who was sitting to the side, did not agree with Xiao Hongchen's view and shook his head.

"Xiao Hongchen, your experience is still somewhat lacking. If they truly wanted to prevent us from winning, the best way would be to restrict the payment to only rare treasures."

"Rare metals and Soul Guidance Devices are our Sun Moon Empire's strengths. They are trying to force us to surrender our high-grade rare metals and Soul Guidance Devices to them as much as possible."

Xiao Hongchen nodded in agreement upon hearing this, then asked with some hesitation:

"Then should we still bid for this battle armor? Many of the high-grade Soul Guidance Devices we have contain emerging technologies."

Elder Ma took out a letter, opened it, and handed it to Xiao Hongchen for him to read.

"The Imperial Family has already intervened in this matter. Their intention is to obtain a set of battle armor at any cost; even just verifying its performance is of great importance to us."

"Therefore, we must bid on the first set of battle armor. The Star Luo Imperial Family's calculations are very shrewd."

"Once the first set falls into the hands of Douling or Heavenly Soul, the remaining party will exhaust their resources to compete with us in the second auction."

"Only during the auction of the first set can we take advantage of the fact that Douling and Heavenly Soul both believe they can outbid each other in the next round, thereby reducing our own expenditure."

After explaining this to Xiao Hongchen, Elder Ma did not hesitate and raised his paddle to join the bidding.

"One hundred and fifty million."

"Two hundred and seventy million."

"Three hundred million."

After Elder Ma made his third bid of three hundred million, the Douling and Heavenly Soul nations finally stopped bidding, allowing the Sun Moon Empire to win the item.

"Xiao Hongchen, be careful during your time in the Star Luo Empire. Once I have the battle armor, I must return to the Sun Moon Empire immediately."

Through Elder Ma's negotiations, at the cost of an additional eighth-level Soul Guidance Device, they paid the rare metals and Soul Guidance Devices in advance and left with the battle armor first.

Xu Jiawei looked at the storage Soul Guidance Device handed over by the Heavenly Fiend Douluo and tapped the table with satisfaction.

"Two ninth-level Soul Guidance Devices, ten eighth-level ones, and one hundred million worth of rare metals—all of them are new types of Soul Guidance Devices I haven't seen before. The Sun Moon Empire is certainly generous."

Seeing the slightly puzzled expression on the Heavenly Fiend Douluo's face, Xu Jiawei continued:

"I have already asked Pavilion Master Huo. They cannot analyze this Two-Word Battle Armor; forcing it open would only trigger an explosion."

"Once Shrek Academy produces more battle armor in the future, the Sun Moon Empire will eventually find a way to obtain it. It is better to exchange it for some high-level Soul Guidance technology now."